Cornish campus shortlist

Exeter University is pushing ahead with its plans for a Cornwall campus despite 바카라사이트 cap on higher education expansion.

The project's steering group this week announced a shortlist of 12 sites, narrowed down from 47 possible locations nominated by landowners and agents.

The list will be whittled down to three or four by October with a decision expected next spring.

The plan has received widespread support and positive feedback from ministers and funding agencies, but will not get 바카라사이트 green light unless 바카라사이트 Government lifts its moratorium on expanding student numbers.

John Inkson, Exeter University deputy vice chancellor and chairman of 바카라사이트 Cornwall Initiative steering group, said hopes were resting on what 바카라사이트 Autumn Statement held this year or next.

"The higher education funding council made it clear that if 바카라사이트 lid was lifted on expansion it would want to look seriously at gaps in provision in certain regions, and Cornwall was a prime example of that," he said.

The steering group is hoping to attract backing from 바카라사이트 Millennium Fund, central and local government, 바카라사이트 European Union, funding agencies, charities and venture capitalists to cover 바카라사이트 Pounds 50-Pounds 70 million needed for 바카라사이트 project to be realised.